Emergency department crowding and mortality: an observational multicenter study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency department (ED) crowding is a serious problem worldwide causing decreased quality of care. It is reasonable to assume that the negative effects of crowding are at least partially due to high staff workload, but previous crowding metrics based on high workload have not been generalisable to Swedish EDs and have not been associated with increased mortality, in contrast to, e.g., occupancy rate. We recently derived and validated the modified Skåne Emergency Department Assessment of Patient Load model (mSEAL) that measures crowding based on staff workload in Swedish EDs, but its ability to identify situations with increased mortality is unclear. In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between ED crowding measured by mSEAL model, or occupancy rate, an

SUBMITTER: Wretborn J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10407086 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature